New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

POLITICIAN

Robert F. Kennedy

1925 - 1968

Photo of Robert F. Kennedy

Icon of person Robert F. Kennedy

Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 64th United States attorney general from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, he was a prominent member of the Democratic Party and is an icon of modern American liberalism.Kennedy was born into a wealthy, political family in Brookline, Massachusetts. After serving in the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert F. Kennedy has received more than 25,288,644 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 72 in 2019). Robert F. Kennedy is the 808th most popular politician (down from 581st in 2019), the 235th most popular biography from United States (down from 181st in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Politician.

Robert F. Kennedy was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy. He was a U.S. Senator and a presidential candidate. He was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California on June 5, 1968, while campaigning for the presidency.

Memorability Metrics

  • 25M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 71

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Robert F. Kennedies by language


Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Robert F. Kennedy ranks 808 out of 15,577Before him are Arthur Henderson, Eduard Bernstein, Ferdinand VII of Spain, Wilhelm Frick, Pedro I of Brazil, and Justin Trudeau. After him are Édouard Daladier, Dilma Rousseff, Carol II of Romania, Liu Shaoqi, Feodor III of Russia, and Tamar of Georgia.

Most Popular Politicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Robert F. Kennedy ranks 14Before him are Albert Bandura, Gilles Deleuze, Patrice Lumumba, Zygmunt Bauman, Alija Izetbegović, and Mahathir Mohamad. After him are Tony Curtis, Lee Van Cleef, B.B. King, Jorge Rafael Videla, Carlos Castaneda, and Audie Murphy. Among people deceased in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy ranks 9Before him are Helen Keller, Marcel Duchamp, Lise Meitner, Padre Pio, John Steinbeck, and Otto Hahn. After him are Konstantin Rokossovsky, Lev Landau, Trygve Lie, Max Brod, Georg von Küchler, and Karl Barth.

Others Born in 1925

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1968

Go to all Rankings

In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert F. Kennedy ranks 235 out of 18,182Before him are Cameron Diaz (1972), Michael Jordan (1963), Spencer Tracy (1900), Peter Falk (1927), Robert E. Lee (1807), and Henry Miller (1891). After him are J. Edgar Hoover (1895), Philip Kotler (1931), Rita Hayworth (1918), Brigham Young (1801), Ted Kaczynski (1942), and John Ford (1894).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Robert F. Kennedy ranks 34Before him are Sitting Bull (1831), John Adams (1735), Herbert Hoover (1874), James Monroe (1758), James Madison (1751), and Andrew Jackson (1767). After him are William Howard Taft (1857), Calvin Coolidge (1872), John Quincy Adams (1767), Benjamin Harrison (1833), Andrew Johnson (1808), and George Marshall (1880).